Roger Miles

25 years: Behavoural science & conduct

Roger researches behavioural risks in organisations, and advises senior leaders on how best to communicate risk and conduct matters. Previously, Roger ran risk communication programmes for professional bodies and the British Government. He now runs industry-level Academies for Conduct and Culture, and produces workshops with financial firms.

Simon Thompson

Managing Director and Author

Simon Thompson is an accomplished executive with over 17 years of leadership in banking and finance, specialising in ethical and sustainable finance. As Managing Director of the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC), he drives global efforts to enhance financial systems through capacity building and education. Previously, as Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute, Simon transformed it into a global leader in socially responsible banking, advocating for ethics, culture, and sustainable finance. He is the author of Green & Sustainable Finance: Principles & Practice and course leader for the Certificate in Green & Sustainable Finance, a globally recognised qualification. Simon is a thought leader in green finance and lifelong professional learning in the financial sector.

Christian Hunt

25 years: Behavioural science & compliance

Christian is the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioural Science led Consulting and Training Firm. Previously, Christian was Managing Director at UBS, and Head of Behavioural Science (BeSci), within the Bank’s Risk function. Prior to joining UBS, he was Chief Operating Officer at the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority.

Stephanie Sfakianos

35 years: Sustainable finance & banking

Stephanie's long career in the financial services industry in London culminated around the past seven years in the field of sustainable finance. She has now left the banking industry, but has continued to apply her sustainable finance expertise through her work with ICMA and the International Standards Organisation.

Amit Kara

30 years: Macroeconomist

Amit is Associate Research Director for Global Macroeconomic Analysis at NIESR. He is a macroeconomist with experience in central banking, investment banking, commercial banking and corporate credit rating. He has most recently worked at HSBC where he helped design the forward economic guidance input for IFRS 9. Amit is currently working on two substantial research projects related to the macroeconomic impact of climate change.

Hannah Duncan

Sustainability marketing & Investor relations

Hannah is a passionate and experienced copywriter, with a flair for all things finance. Hannah worked as the Senior Content Manager at Invest Click & Invest, before becoming a contributing writer for Hargreaves Landsdown and Fintech Finance where she wrote blogs, white papers and web copy for businesses - as well as articles for magazines and newspapers. Hannah now is the content writer & founder of Hannah Duncan Investment Content.

Keith Mullin

35 years: Capital markets editorial

Keith is the founder and director of KM Capital Markets, a media and thought-leadership consultancy. He spent the past 35 years working in specialist capital markets media and has had a ring-side seat at all of the major market events. Prior to setting up KM Capital Markets in 2017, Keith worked at Thomson Reuters.

Sir Ronald Cohen

Father of impact investing

Sir Ronald Cohen is the Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School and The Portland Trust. At the start of his career, he co-founded the private equity firm Apax Partners. In 2020, he wrote the bestselling book “Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change”. Considered the Father of Social Investment, in 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.

James Clifton

25 years: Sustainability strategy

James Clifton is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Cultivo, a fintech company whose mission is to unlock investment in nature at scale. He is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building data-driven technology ventures from ideas to IPO. 

Nisrin Abouelezz

20 years: Structured finance and diversity advocate

Nisrin Abouelezz is a banker covering emerging markets for an Asian bank in the City of London. She has experienced diversity both directly and indirectly in a number of its different forms throughout her career. When Diversity & Inclusion initiative was introduced at her bank, she jumped at the chance to play a part in progressing this important issue faced by both our current generation and those of the future.

Sarah Breeden

Executive Director: Bank of England

Sarah Breeden is the Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk at the Bank of England. She is responsible for guarding the wider economy against damage from the financial system. Sarah has worked at the bank for 30 years, most recently as head of International Bank Supervision.

Mark Carney

UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance

Mark Carney started his career at Goldman Sachs working in their offices across three continents. Following a decade-long career at Goldman Sachs, Mark was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2003. In 2004 he became Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance, a role he held until he was made governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008. In 2013 Mr Carney accepted the role of governor of the Bank of England, a position he held until 2020. In 2019 he was appointed as UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Vincent Kneefel

15 years: Ocean conservationist

Vincent Kneefel is an underwater photographer, ocean conservationist and circular economy expert. He has worked for organizations such as WWF, United Nations and Accenture on strategic sustainability and ocean conservation initiatives. His photographs show some of the most iconic and endangered creatures of our ocean.

Oliver Bolton

ClimateTech entrepreneur

Oliver Bolton is a ClimateTech entrepreneur with 12 years experience in the consumer product and health sectors. He founded his first drinks brand, Alibi in 2007. In 2015, his soft drinks company Waterbomb Ltd. became a founding UK B Corp and one of the first European soft drinks brands to become B Corp accredited. In 2014, Oliver co-founded the vitamin brand VITL.com. VITL became the largest subscription and nutrition platform and combined AI, DNA & bloods analysis. Oliver was a recipient of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin COOM award in 2017, which came with a £3 million prize support package. Oliver also mentors students who have grown up in some of the UK's most deprived communities through the Prince's Trust. In 2018, Oliver pivoted from the consumer product and health sectors into climate technology. He is the founder and CEO of Earthly, a marketplace that connects businesses with high-integrity nature-based solutions.

Ma Jun

Founder and President: Institute of Finance and Sustainability

Dr. Ma Jun is the Founder and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability. He is also the Chairman of China’s Green Finance Committee, Co-Chair of G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Green Investment Principles for the Belt & Road and Director of the Centre for Finance and Development at Tsinghua University. Dr Ma Jun has published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles on macroeconomic, monetary policy, environmental economics and green finance.

Elisa Moscolin

Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Foundation

Elisa Moscolin is a sustainability professional with a track record of driving this agenda in global blue-chip organisations. She advises Boards and Executive teams on sustainability strategy and execution. She has worked in the ICT and Financial Services sectors. Elisa is currently Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Foundation at Sage Group plc.; Sage is a global market leader for technology for small and medium businesses and Elisa is leading its sustainability agenda. Elisa has previously worked for Vodafone Group in global and local roles in Italy, the UK and Kenya. In Kenya she worked with Safaricom, a subsidiary of Vodafone which developed M-Pesa, the iconic mobile-based money transfer and banking platform that has greatly improved financial inclusion in the country. She is an alumni of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and holds a Master’s Degree in International Studies and Diplomacy. Elisa’s professional ambition is to contribute to shifting the business community toward more ethical and responsible business practices.

Ellen Miles

Founder: Nature is a Human Right

Ellen Miles is the founder of Nature is a Human Right: the campaign for the United Nations to recognise daily contact with green space as a human right. She is also the founder and director of Dream Green, a social enterprise empowering communities to "green" in their neighbourhoods.

Arun Kelshiker

20 years: Asset management and stewardship

Arun Kelshiker was formerly the Head of Asset Allocation and Portfolio Strategy at Standard Chartered Bank and part of the bank's Global Investment Committee, where he provided investment advisory and multi-asset portfolio solutions. His focus is now with Cambridge Sustainable Investment Partners, which draws its expertise from the Resilience and Sustainable Development Centre at Cambridge University. He is also a university lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and is Vice Chair of the CFA UK's Inclusion and Diversity Committee and its Investment Committee.

Kate Larsen

20 years: Human Rights and Supply Chains

Kate Larsen is a Director at SupplyESChange advising and training Investors and Companies on Environmental and Social issues of ESG, especially, human rights risk management in global supply chains. She has worked over 20 years on supply chain ESG including leading Asia Corporate Responsibility in the UK FTSE100 company Burberry and as a Global Director Responsible Sourcing in a US Nasdaq listed retailer.

Denitsa Georgieva

Stewardship Specialist

Denitsa Georgieva is part of Tumelo, an innovative Fintech business that uses technology to help pension providers and investment platforms engage their underlying investors. She focuses on establishing a connection between underlying investors and their fund manager. This aims to enable better transparency and accountability across the investment value chain.

Kevin Trenberth

Former Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC

Dr. Kevin Trenberth is a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He was a Coordinating Lead Author of the 1995, 2001, and 2007 Scientific Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Kevin also shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which went to the IPCC and Al Gore. Between 1999 to 2006, Kevin served on the Joint Scientific committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Kevin then went on to chair the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel from 2004 to 2010 and the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Group from 2010 to 2013. He has also served on many US national committees and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. Kevin has received many awards throughout his career. In 2000, he received the Jule G. Charney award from the AMS; in 2003, he was given the NCAR Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2013 he was awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, and he received the Climate Communication Prize from AGU and in 2017 he was honoured with the Roger Revelle medal by the AGU.

Nicola Steen

30 years: Emissions Trading Schemes

Nicola Steen has been working on using market mechanisms to reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions since 1989. She helped instigate the pan-industry and government discussions that led to the UK Emissions Trading Group and the first pan-economy emissions trading scheme in the world. Most recently, she is working again on the voluntary carbon markets, seeing new capital and attention moving towards bolstering sustainable solutions.

Markus Schuller

25 years: Asset management

Sam Hope

5 years: Carbon Markets

Sam Hope is the Senior Carbon Advisor at Plannet Zero, a tech company dedicated to developing smart carbon footprinting software for SMEs. His role is a Senior Carbon Advisor, and he works with businesses of all sizes, particularly in helping to scale the durable carbon removals market.

Samuel Temidayo Osinubi

Avian ecologist

Samuel Temidayo Osinubi is an avian behavioural ecologist who has worked in a variety of roles across multiple continents. His academic background includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa, a PhD from the School of Biological Sciences in Christchurch, New Zealand, and an MSc from the AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute in Jos, Nigeria. He has worked in various capacities with BirdLife International, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Birds, Fauna and Floral International, the UN Convention on Migratory Species, and also enjoys time on cruise ships as an expedition lecturer. His core values are centred around achieving set conservation project objectives and opening doors for wider collaborations. He sees himself as a bridge between diverse points of view and backgrounds.

Marilyn Swinney

20 years: Business Development & Growth

Marilyn Swinney, a two-decade-old asset management professional, has a proven track record of developing strategic partnerships across various institutions. Her skills in business development, risk management, investment solutions, and product development, combined with her visual impairment, enable her to provide unique perspectives to investors. Swinney is a CFA Charter holder and active in the diversity, equity, and inclusion community, holding advisory board positions for groups like GAIN and Cambridge Sustainable Investment Partners. She is also a business ambassador for Ambitious About Autism.